Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-14
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. COERCION FOR IRELAND. Vigorous Measures By The
 Tories. A RICH BRIDE FROM ENGLAND Another Of Colonel FinIey's
 Exploits. THE GREAT TELEPHONE SUIT. More Kicking Against As- sembly Forty-Nine.
THE GREAT TELEPHONE SUIT.
COERCION FOR IRELAND.

The Defeat of Parnell the Signal for 1 Tory Severity and Active Warfare Against the National League-Poii. 1 tics Carried Into Private Life and DegeneratIns Into Active Personal la AnimOsitIes.
 1 LONDON, Feb. 13.-Enco uraged by their decisive victory Friday night in the House of Commons over MT. ParnelPs amendment l to the address in reply to the speech from | the throne, the Cabinet after quite a long 1 discussion yesterday determined to proceed l with Sir Michael Hicks Beach's criminal law l of Ireland amendment The bill of Sir Mich 1 ael's is, in plain words, the long looked for I coercion measure of the Tories. It demands \ that the executive be strengthened with fur l ther powers of repression and embodies all I that has been expressed in the recent debates | concerning government with a strong hand. | These ideas are sustained in the Cabinet by 1 Mir Goschen, who represents the Liberal Unionist element and who, it appears, is out
 running his Tory confreres in the matter of 1 severity toward the sister isle. Lord Ran i dolph ChurchilPs influence is manifestly l gone and the Conservative cabinet I lacking the check of his influence is a determined to stand or fall on the issue 4 of English rule in Ireland none. \ They look upon home rule as movement of ! secession-as first step toward the dismem \ berment and one which they will not brook. \ The trial of Mir. Dillon and his colleagues I this week or certainly the proceedings there \ in will resound through Ireland as a tragic l comedy, enacted by partisan jury and preju- l diced judges. It is certain that the result l will be conviction. The rage of the people l added to the proof shown in last nights di- vision that the Nationalists have nothing to hope for from this Parli ament causes the ex- pectation that there will be renewal of activity the part of the lawIess Irish pop 1 ulation and that fresh outrages in aggravated form may be looked for forthwith. The Cabinet therefore will give their coercion
 bill urgency and push it ahead of the pro- cedure act. Home rulers are perplexed and annoyed over the absence of MT. Gladstone from the House of Commons. Up to the last moment many Of them fostered the hope that he would speak to the Parnell amendment. They expect, however, that the production of the coercion bill will be the signal for his return and the renewal of his cooperation with NIT. Parnell.
 But MT. Gladstone's reappearance largely depends on the extent of the governments coereive proposals. It is now known that the Liberal leader does not intend to be pres
 ent in his seat unless home rule is to be de-
 bated to defip ite motion or to attack the
 severe oppressive measures proposed by the
 government. Should Sir Michael Hicks
 Beach's bill be limited to the power to change
 the venue of trial and to deal with persons charged with conspiracy to defraud landlords
 and other creditors, MT. Gladstone, knowing
 full well that it would be most impolitic to
 assall he adaptation of the ordinary law to
 xk,.oo be denied that the state of affairs in Ireland is xtraordinary, to say the least-will again leave the Parnellites to fight their own battle l a their own way. The hnesse which the J ministry have hitherto displayed in the tao tics employed in the debates on Irish matters I is not likely to fail them now They will I propose no measure having among it's provo l eative elements the challenging of the ardent | sympathizers of the Liberals with the Irish l cause, especially in view of the fact that that l section of the Conservatives following the lead of Lord Randolph Churchill is ready to assist in opposing coercion from the moment such proposal is made. careful review of the session fails to disclose the slightest chance for the Glad stonians to weaken the position of the gov ernment. The debate on MT. Parnell's amendment tended to materially demoralize the Gladstone party and the attitude of Sir William Vernon Hsrcourt, MT. John Morley and other leaders toward the National I leagues plan of campaign was equivoeal and hesitant. Not one of the Liberal allies of the Nationalist party fully indorsed the plan. Nor did any of them even partially condemn it and the Conservatives were therefore given ample opportunity, of which they fully avail ed themselves, to denounce the Liberal leaders as dishonest or at least disingenuous in evading the main question. All of the high class Liberal weekly journals re echo these criticisms in their issues of to-day and supplement their comments by earnestly appealing to the better sense of the Gladsto- nians to save public life from the gulf of degradation into which their leader is drag ging it. The Economist is particularly bitter in it's strictures upon the faltering policy of .the Liberals and forsaking It's usual temper ate language refers scathingly to the shame less dishonesty of the utterances of the lead CTS, accusing them of indulging in the use of every spacious subterfuge and sophistical per version possible to prevent the Liberal party from being formally committed either for or against the plan of campaign. The tone of the Unionist press reflects the increase of the feud between the sections of the Liberal
 party and in the Liberal clubs political
 differences are rapidly resolving them selves into personal animosities. The Brooks
 club, the stronghold of the Liberal arstocra-
 cy, has rejected MT. Vernon Harcourt,
 son of Sir Vernon Harcourt, and Mir. Horace
 Davey, son of Sir Horace Davey; and the Fox club, the inner and most select circle of
 the Brooks coterie, with appalling unanimity
 use what known to it's members as
 "pil1s," but more commonly denominated
 stblackballs," ;" when balloting on the question
 of admitting any candidate suspected of
 Gladstonian predilections. The militant
 Unionists at the Reform club, the Devonshire
 club and even the Radical Eighty club are
 trying with all their might to get the upper
 hand of the management and dust the Glad
 stonian members. GIadstonianism may be
 said to be under politico social ban. The
 Liberals however, not permitting this
 sort Of treatment to escape their resentment
 and do not hesitate to use the black ball in
 turn and the result is that several of the old
 est and most substantial clubs in London are
 threatened with dissolution.